Come On, Eileen - Softcover

Stephens, M. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196390866X ISBN 13: 9781963908664

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

How superbly imagined these pieces are, with surprises at every turn. M. G. Stephens is a writer forever interested in the endless wandering mystery of being human. The book is a treasure.
Joan Silber, author of Improvement

On M. G. Stephens

“Michael Stephens’ voice prowls through his own experience with a savage yet lyrical intensity. An impressive book.”
Rudolph Wurlitzer

“It is a joy to read because Michael Stephens is such a superb writer, a master of language, in short, a poet. In his immaculate artistry he has given us another way of perceiving our lives and our struggle, forcing us to ask ourselves what our legacy will be.”
Hubert Selby Jr.

“It’s an eloquent style that calls for reading aloud, an urban Irish style perhaps, perfect for nipping out the back door, rolling garbage cans as obstacles after you, and loping over the rooftops to safety in a vacant lot.”
Rolling Stone

“Great God a-mighty! The Brooklyn Book of the Dead is one powerful, beautifully written book. One of the absolute mysteries of art is that it can depict the ugly, the revolting, and the nauseating so that the attractiveness of the performance, and its truth, balance the grime of the subject matter. Am I on course to see both Joyce and Barthelme in this 400-horse-power prose?”
Guy Davenport

“Michael Stephens was my Dante into dark and dangerous places that native Irish writers never knew. Mr. Stephens, sardonic, witty, places his characters in the path of an oncoming future that seems to offer little hope though you know in the end they’ll prevail.”
Frank McCourt

About this title

About the Author

M. G. Stephens is author of over 30 books, including The Coole Trilogy, consisting of the novels Season at Coole, The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, and Kid Coole. His novel King Ezra (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), has been translated into Italian as Re Ezra. In the recent past he has written such books as the hybrid work of poetry, fiction and fact, History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion (MadHat Press, 2021), and the story collection Jesus' Dog (Paycock Press, 2024). Spuyten Duyvil will soon publish his linked stories, Come On, Eileen, and his long-awaited memoir When Poetry Was the World, about the early days of the Poetry Project in 1966. (He wrote a PhD on the Poetry Project at the University of Essex in Colchester, England from 2003 to 2006.) Stephens also continues to publish such poetry in such books as Sixmilebridge (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and Popeye, Unchained (2025), a collaboration of 85 mostly unrhyming blank verse sonnets accompanied by 85 collages by Brooklyn artist Archie Rand.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196390866X
• ISBN 13: 9781963908664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236